These posts offer summaries or opinion of research relating to mental health issues, counselling and psychotherapy.
I write here as a psychotherapist who sometimes comes across maladaptive daydreaming (MD) in clients, most often self-reported. As always, I write primarily as a learning tool for myself and secondarily to share what my others might find [...]
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) involves becoming deeply absorbed in vivid fantasies that feel difficult to control and begin to disrupt everyday life. A large review published in 2025 found that people with more severe MD also tended to report [...]
Can the impact of poor reciprocal communication between a child and its care-givers appear the same as autism?
Introduction This post considers the implications for psychotherapy of a recent paper on the role of guilt and shame in producing suicidal ideation among women. Here, the role of childhood sexual abuse is the primary interest. The notes [...]
Research showing that the therapeutic relationship is central to positive outcomes.
Introduction The paper cited below considers the psychodynamic understanding of depression and the applicability of psychodynamic psychotherapy in treating it. This blogpost contains brief notes by me (Juline) made on 4 March 2018 from a clinical perspective on [...]
